"The high-rise 'projects' may have been a dismal
failure, it is said, but urban renewal was done with good intentions. Not so,
Jones argues in this immense volume ... . Incorporating all the details into
his sweeping narrative, Jones makes gripping drama out of urban development.
Unfortunately, the epic it recounts is tragic." Ray Olson, Booklist Magazine.

"If you want to understand the present and the future,
you have to understand the past. This is particularly true of urban problems,
which can never be detached from their history. Some provocative new reading in
this area is E. Michael Jones' The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic
Cleansing." Dan Knauss, Riverwest
Currents.

"This startling claim - that the breakdown of the
Church in modern America had its origins in government-directed social policies
of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, which originated in the government's propaganda
efforts during World War I to control the 'enemy on the home front' (the
Catholic ethnics from Poland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and southeastern Europe)
is made by E. Michael Jones in his powerful new work ... . The Slaughter of
Cities provides a key to understanding who 'broke' America's cities and why
they did so. The book also indicates how the elites used World Wars I and II to
'Americanize' Catholic ethnics, used the crisis of war production to transport
millions of poor blacks North for factory work and housed them in Catholic
neighborhoods, branded Catholics as racists for resisting this influx, invented
and employed sophisticated propaganda tools in the major media to persuade
Catholics the suburban life with a car and garage was superior to a close-knit
neighborhood, and that public school was superior to the parochial school, and
so much more." Paul Likoudis, The Wanderer.

"... challenges all who are concerned about the status
of modern day America to think more deeply about their ethnic identity, down to
the most practical details." Jeffrey J. Langan, Culture Wars.

"Jones argues that the established urban neighborhoods
did not deteriorate simply because of economic crises or demographic accidents.
Rather, from the 1950s on, a combination of misnamed redevelopment programs and
malicious social planning turned these areas into war zones, and finally,
depopulated deserts. ... He insists that what motivated such experiments as
busing and scattered public housing, presented as urban renewal, was at least
partly a disdain for urban ethnics ... . Protestant elites and their Jewish
liberal allies never hid their contempt for the white ethnics who resisted
their plans for thrusting underclass blacks into ethnic Catholic neighborhoods.
Nor did the urban reformers whom Jones examines, such as Louis Wirth and the
Blanshard brothers, conceal their intention of mainstreaming Catholic
immigrants and their descendants, whom they viewed as a threat to their notion
of a 'pluralistic America.' ... Jones correctly understands the overshadowing
role of ethnic hatred in political life. ... Jones demonstrates that
anti-Catholic Protestants have also contributed to this manipulative revolution
from above, carried out in the name of fighting 'prejudice.'" Paul
Gottfried, Chronicles Magazine.

"... Jones is onto something significant. The destruction of the working
class, homeowning urban neighborhoods was not just the necessary outcome of
economic and demographic changes, but also the result of ill-considered
government policies written by urban planners often contemptuous of Catholics
and patronizing towards blacks. ... What E. Michael Jones in The Slaughter of
Cities understands ... is that the same stubborness that kept the Catholics in
cities - and made them so belligerent to blacks who threatened their
neighborhoods - was key to rebuilding the cities." Harry Siegel, The
Weekly Standard.

"Jones has described in microcosm some of the policies
that led our once-proud centers of American industy to become the dead zones of
the Rust Belt. ... Jones has given us a cautionary tale of government attempts
to force disparate groups of people to interact and embrace one anohter in our
big cities, which breaks down into suspicion and flight." Thomas J.
Herron, The Barnes Review.

"Jones documents, from a wide variety of government documents, essays and
memoirs, the blood-boiling indictment that a well-defined elite orchestrated
federal housing policy to destroy the political base of Polish, Italian, Irish
and other ethnic Americans in the major, industrial cities. ... Jones’s
substantial and important book ... constitutes a necessary resource in the
understanding of how the federal government operates." George Kocan, The
Illinois Leader.

"Jones castigates the planning elite and their patrons
in Washington as he details the ghastly consequences of federal planning on
urban neighborhoods. Jones blames federally coordinated social engineering for
creating today’s ghettos. ... Urban renewal efforts in the East and Midwest from
the 1930s through the ’60s get an entirely fresh interpretation by Jones. He
blames intentional plans that were hardly about civic improvement (an abject
failure in that regard) and more about ethnic cleansing. ... This book is a
courageous confrontation with ecclesiastical and corporate giants by ordinary
citizens and parishioners who found little support except from their pastors.
What is happening currently with clustering of suburban and city parishes in
the face of shrinking numbers of clergy might be similar. The problem that now
rotates around a clergy shortage begs for fresh imagination and
solutions." Rev. Lawrence M. Ventline, D.Min., St.
Anthony Messenger.

"The most unjustly unsung
observer of America today, as far as I know, is E. Michael Jones, editor of the
Catholic monthly Culture Wars (most of which he writes himself) and
author of several wonderfully trenchant books. Among the latter are Libido
Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control (2000) and The
Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing (2004), both of
which tell the story of the cultural subversion practiced by America's elites,
especially such seemingly respectable institutions as the Ford and Rockefeller
Foundations. Jones is as profound as he is prolific. He's also versatile,
original, combative, and fearless, naming names and drawing blood. If you think
of liberals as well-meaning bumblers, guilty of nothing worse than ‘unintended
consequences,’ you need to read Jones." Joseph Sobran, Sobran's.

The Slaughter of Cities: Urban
Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing by E. Michael Jones is a remarkable history of the application of
private foundation and federal housing policies and dollars in Boston, Chicago,
Detroit and Philadelphia as a weapon of economic and political warfare from the
end of WW II through the 1960’s. … a formidable intellectual accomplishment and
well worth reading to understand American history, the roots of housing bubbles
and the history of our “financial coup d’etat.” Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari, The Real Deal on US Housing
Policy.